Thank you for this one. I definitely must get hold of Walter. On this side of the ocean, Swissman Dieter Meier (famous as the one half of the group "Yello") wrote a book with the title "Hermes Baby". See http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/26308.html

This is eerie. Just a week or two ago, while browsing a used bookstore I came across Hermes 3000 and almost bought it. It was tough to understand the content from the book jacket and online searching netted me not much else.

I do want to read it though, so if no one has taken you up on the book lending program, I'll take it and then pass it along to the next reader.

Might not have been your intention, but I think there's likely a few dozen people now trying to locate this book in our separate library systems. And - oops - the normally infallible Columbus Metropolitan system comes up empty (but the farting dog is well represented, apparently). Deek - can I be put on a waiting list?